Early registration for SALALM ends tomorrow, May 18th! Please register now to avoid late fees.

Special Collections Curator
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Library
The University of Texas Libraries – The University of Texas at Austin

An almost final version is now available under Conference / Program, above!

Lynn Shirey

The Nominations Committee would like to extend its congratulations to our newly elected SALALM leaders. El Comité de Nominaciones quiere dar la enhorabuena a los nuevos representantes de SALALM. VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT ELECT (Vicepresidente/Presidente Electo): Roberto Delgadillo (University of California, Davis) EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS AT LARGE, 2012-2015 (Miembros del Comité Ejecutivo): Paloma Celis-Carbajal (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Daisy Domínguez (The City [...]

Please remember to register for our Trinidad conference by May 18th!

Lynn Shirey

I just returned from a quick visit to Port of Spain. The hotel is wonderful, with views of the mountains and city on all sides. Best of all, the Trinidadians (“Trinis”) are great hosts. It promises to be another great conference, and we are in very good hands. I visited NALIS (the National Library), in [...]

Please see the nearly final SALALM conference program on the conference site under Program!

Minor adjustments will be made between now and time of printing.

Lynn Shirey

Presidenta

Registration The Latino population in our country is growing and, with it, the demand for culturally relevant information.  Library users in academic and public libraries want more materials about Latin American and Latino issues – especially from the perspective of those cultures.  At the same time, libraries are facing difficult economic challenges, resulting in staff shortages [...]

Please remember to cast your vote for SALALM officers! the new deadline is May 4. You should have received an electronic ballot via email.

 
Lynn Shirey
Harvard University

Dear Colleagues: I am delighted to announce that, effective today, Christine Hernandez is the new Curator of Special Collections in the Latin American Library (LAL), Tulane University.

A preliminary schedule for SALALM LVII to be hosted by the University of the West Indies in Port of Spain, Trinidad, has now been posted. View it here: http://salalm.org/Conf/program/

Our very own Adán Griego (Stanford University), Hortensia Calvo (Tulane University), and Alvaro Risso (Librería Linardi y Risso) have made the list of top 50 most influential professionals at the Buenos Aires Book Fair. Read more here.

Some of us will soon be heading to the Latin American Studies Association Congress in San Francisco, CA, May 23-26, 2012. The Latin American Research Review, which is the journal of the association and one of the preeminent journals in our field, announced in 2010 that it would provide open access to its content for people residing [...]

SALALM Candidates Bios.

Site Description: The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) is an award-winning online bibliographic database which provides access to information from and about Latin America, the Caribbean basin, the US-Mexico border region, and Latinos in the United States.  The index includes complete bibliographic citations and subject indexing for articles, book reviews, original literary works, documents, and other [...]

Is there an up-to-date list of library/documentation/information science publications for Latin America?  If not, might we cobble one together by contribution?